Why are the emails going to spam?

Question

I am sending an email using PHP but all the emails are going to the spam folder. Please tell me where I am making a mistake.

<?
    $name=$_POST['name'];
    $email=$_POST['email'];
    $phone=$_POST['phone'];
    $message=$_POST['message'];
    $ToEmail = "me@example.com";
    $ToSubject = "Message from your site";
    $EmailBody = "Name: $name\n 
        Email: $email\n
        Phone: $phone\n
        Message: $message\n";
    $Message = $EmailBody;
    $headers .= "Content-type: text; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
    $headers .= "From:".$name." / ".$email."\r\n";
    mail($ToEmail,$ToSubject,$Message, $headers);
    header("location: thankyou.php");
?>

Well, if the recipient moves your mail into the spam folder, there's is nothing your PHP code can do about it. — Max Beikirch, Mar 10 '13 at 14:01
To improve readability, please, do not abuse capital letters. — Arkana, Apr 01 '14 at 11:57

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '13 at 14:03

Long story short, if the recipient's server put your mail into the spam box, your program is working all right and there is nothing you can do.

Longer Story: Nowadays most mailing servers will check that the email is from a server that actually holds the domain corresponding to the email. Suppose you are sending with account abc@gmail.com, the server of the recipient's email checks if the server from which this mail comes is gmail.com. This is done by checking the SPF record .

Why are the emails going to spam?

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